Blog · Notes on AI, strategy, and client work

What we’re learning, while it’s still fresh.

Short pieces from Mike Wittenstein, who leads Storyminers, a strategy practice for founders, owners and CEOs. Each one is written close to when it happened. The longer pieces, the Change the Frame field guide, and Mike’s talks are on the Ideas page.

More content, thinner work

More posts, more decks, more first drafts. It feels like progress, because there’s more of it. But AI works with what it’s handed. Give it a thin description of your company and it hands thin work back, faster.

I made our history readable by AI

I’d saved my conversations for years. Almost 3,000 of them. Every one has now been read in full by Claude, the AI model we work with. Then I wrote to the son of a client I first worked with in 2010, and what came back surprised me . . .

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Where good ideas stall

You’ve had the good meeting. The ideas were sharp, people leaned in, someone said “oh, wow.” Then everyone goes back to their week, and the notes sit in three notebooks.

What happens instead

When you work with me, the conversation doesn’t end when the call does. It becomes your own Story Workout space: a private web page, opened with a password, that already holds everything from our conversation . . .

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The next step

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